Tuesday, 6 March 2007

Computers and their importance in modern society


When somebody says a word – PC even 4 years old child already knows the meaning of the word. The technological spread is extremely fast and technical inventions are improved with better quality and performance on daily basis. The PC’s are source of knowledge as well as fun of every young person.
In the past they were mainly used for operating different machines, governing weapons and controlling traffic. PC’s were mainly used to encode secret martial messages by FBI agents and ordinary people could just dream about this made-up brain.
What is their secret and why they are so important for society?
Nowadays we all now what their interior and exterior are consisting of. Some people believe that they are so intelligent that they can think 1000 times faster than human’s brain. The truth is somewhere between. They are indeed faster than human’s brain, information is transferred by unbelievable speed but PC’s do not have any brain. All instruction is from the man and therefore I wonder why the man is becoming their slave. It should be other way round, shouldn’t it?
As every product even computers have their positives and negatives. Some of the negatives I personally consider are that PC’s are stealers of our time, patient, eyesight.
A lot of people depend on them, mainly teenagers. The entertainment industry that offers a lot of computers games in the market, gets profit from human’s weakness to come under any non-weighted product or service if it offers any excitement or entertainment.
And the positive view on them is when we debate about their ability to make easier our lives. For example students appreciate that they can easily find a lot of information with their help, can write some tasks on the PC’s programmer, can study at home by using learning material from CD’s, etc.
Computers operate a lot of manufactures and machines in industry sector and people who are not familiar with PC’s they find difficulties to find a decent job in the future.
The most of the companies require at least intermediate level of PC’s knowledge from candidate for job. If people do not want to be behind a modern time using of basic programmers as Word, Excel and Internet is necessary.
I personally feel that computers have a huge importance not only in developing science and technology but also in developing our knowledge. Science and technology has been spreading out in such a fast speed that it is necessary to look for information about new inventions on regular basis otherwise we might realise that we are out of society and society might not accept us.

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